Blog#19 The City on the Edge and Time travel

In the City on the Edge of Forever and the article by Carol Sagan they both ponder the ideas of time travel and the parallel effects that happen during the time travel. In the movie it told ways that going back in time could disrupt the future greatly. It relates back the the "grandfather effect" in the article and how if you could go back in time and kill your grandfather, you therefore wouldn't ever be existed even though you killed him. In the movie, Edith had two paths in like they found out that she had. Be killed by a car, or live on to become wealthy and start a peace movement that happens to cause a catastrophe that costs many innocent lives. When McCoy jumped back into time, he disrupted the natural laws of letting things happen on its own. If McCoy never entered the time machine at that moment then Edith would have died the way she did and there would be no peace rally or Innocent deaths besides her. But when McCoy jumps back, he disrupts the future but for him still the past. I feel that if time travel was possible, that would be a very big problem happening. Us going back in time could cause our own existence to change dramatically. Disrupting the natural laws of life would therefore change the idea that you could go back and live a completely different life. I am a strong believer that everything happens for a reason. I feel that if you disrupt the natural laws of time and age then things will start to fall apart on us. Time travel is a cool idea, but i think that us as humans defying laws of physics could cause us to loose sense of real time and ideas of the future. How can you look forward to the future when your only focusing on the past. I feel that's the beauty of life, is you life for the moment because there is no going back. Life is precious for a reason and i feel that people would change extreame if they knew that they could go back or forward many years. People are here now, living in this time for a reason and a purpose. If we change the time we are here, then our reasons would change therefore changing the fact that everything happens for a reason. I like the idea of time travel, but this technology could cause some major disruption in the universe. I feel that things like time travel should just be meant for our entertainment in the writings of Science Fiction.